Happy post-Thanksgiving everyone. Since nobody has work today, I'm sure nobody will read this or participate, so I'm gonna go with a pretty random combination here. I figure in keeping with the Thanksgiving turkey thing, I would offer up two delicious turkeys of the film variety and let you all choose, so here you go::
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Two legends of 80's barroom cheese. You be the judge as to which will triumph in this test of terrible!
Comments (10)
Cocktail is more terrible. Dalton is the best!
Posted by Ponnerbell | November 28, 2003 7:41 AM
Posted on November 28, 2003 07:41
See, if you had moved Terrible Friday to Terrible Wednesday, you would've had more of a response! I anticipate the response will be just as tepid on Christmas week.
Posted by Koganuts | November 28, 2003 3:08 PM
Posted on November 28, 2003 15:08
I don't care about the response, I only care about which is more terrible. There are always other terribles, after all
Posted by Yams | November 28, 2003 3:17 PM
Posted on November 28, 2003 15:17
Holy crap, I fear I'm stumped on this one. I guess I'll say Cocktail since I actually spent money to see it (rental), while roadhouse I caught on cable... so I guess I also spent money on that, but it wasn't voluntary... I had my hands tied, my eyelids forced open with needles... like in Dario Argento's "Opera"... brrrr
Posted by iendive | November 28, 2003 4:02 PM
Posted on November 28, 2003 16:02
Hands down Roadhouse, Tom Cruise is way hotter than Patrick Swayze hands down.... Plus Cocktail had Elisabeth Shue and I really liked her...
Happy Post Thanksgiving to you....
Posted by Tonya | November 28, 2003 5:42 PM
Posted on November 28, 2003 17:42
The answer is that "Cocktail" is more terrible. First off, Tom Cruise stinks. I mean, Swayze does too, but at least Swayze's career has been basically over for a while (those who had to do QC on "Black Dog" notwithstanding ), while Cruise keeps hanging around. Second, the bad guys in "Road House" are much better bad guys, being armed with a monster truck and living in a house with a bunch of stuffed trophy animals from hunting trips and whatnot. Meanwhile the bad guy in "Cocktail" (Elisabeth Shue's dad) lives in a penthouse in New York and is armed with his checkbook. Not too intimidating. Third, even though in both movies the best friend dies (Sam Elliott in "Road House", Bryan Brown in "Cocktail"), Sam Elliott goes out like a champ dying in a fight while Bryan Brown kills himself cause he's not rich anymore. What a wuss. Finally, Dalton in "Road House" deals with the bad guys appropriately, by ripping a guy's throat out at the end, while Tom Cruise's big finale is tearing up a check and some bad poetry. So in summation, "Cocktail" is way, way more terrible.
Posted by Yams | November 28, 2003 11:58 PM
Posted on November 28, 2003 23:58
Wow... you know these two movies, like, really well... and I mean freakish attention to detail... kinda makes a person wonder... "The lady doth protest too much, methinks"
Posted by iendive | November 29, 2003 2:48 AM
Posted on November 29, 2003 02:48
I think the real question is, "When can we see these two midgets duke it out?"
Posted by GroveDaddy | November 29, 2003 12:11 PM
Posted on November 29, 2003 12:11
I wouldn't have posted about them if I didn't know them pretty well. Although it's been a couple years since I saw either of them, I've got a good memory for movies and remember them pretty well; but I have seen each of these movies a couple times over the years. I think I even saw "Road House" in theaters
Posted by Yams | November 29, 2003 5:11 PM
Posted on November 29, 2003 17:11
Ok so first off Tom Cruise does stink that's for certain, besides Risky Business I don't think I can name one good flick he's been in, well I did like Minority Report, ok but aside from that, I only chose Cocktail cause well, we get to look at him, right ladies? and I'd much rather look at Tom than Patrick, case closed ;) I mean they're both rotten, but I did like the big barroom brawl scene but that chick in Roadhouse blows and Elisabeth Shue was cool ;)
Ok me thinks this lady does protest too much.... night all :)
Posted by Tonya | November 29, 2003 9:36 PM
Posted on November 29, 2003 21:36